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Research team awakens 'hidden oxygen' to produce green hydrogen

Phys · · 461 words · By Sungkyunkwan University
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Researchers from Sungkyunkwan University and Kyungpook National University have developed a non-precious metal water-splitting catalyst using cobalt oxide nanoclusters. By adjusting atomic bond lengths, the team enabled lattice oxygen to participate in the reaction, potentially reducing the cost of green hydrogen production.

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“A joint research team led by Professor Hyung Mo Jeong from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) and Professor Ji Hoon Lee from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Kyungpook National University has developed a highly efficient, non-precious metal water-splitting catalyst.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general definitions of 'Professor' and unrelated Wikipedia entries about Korean actors. No specific source confirms the collaboration between Professor Hyung Mo Jeong and Professor Ji Hoon Lee on this catalyst.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shim Hyung-tak (Korean: 심형탁, born January 12, 1978) is a South Korean actor. He starred in Korean dramas such as The Road Home (2009), Three Sisters (2010), Welcome Rain to My Life (2012), You Are the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shim_Hyung-tak
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Oh Jung-se (Korean: 오정세; born February 26, 1977) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his lead roles in the television series It's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020), Uncle (2021), Revenant (2023), M…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Jung-se
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Running Man (Korean: 런닝맨) is a South Korean variety show, formerly part of SBS' Good Sunday lineup. It first aired on July 11, 2010. It is the longest-running Korean variety show. Running Man was orig…
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“The results are published in Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Catalysis (, kə-TAL-iss-iss) is the increase in rate of a chemical reaction due to an added substance known as a catalyst ( KAT-əl-ist). Catalysts are not consumed by the reaction and remain unchanged…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalysis
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The first time a catalyst was used in the industry was in 1746 by J. Roebuck in the manufacture of lead chamber sulfuric acid. Since then catalysts have been in use in a large portion of the chemical …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_catalysts
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A sterimol parameter is a set of vectors which describes the steric occupancy of a molecule. First developed by Verloop in the 1970s. Sterimol parameters found extensive application in quantitative st…
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“Using electrochemical methods, the researchers successfully fragmented conventional bulk cobalt oxide into ultra-fine nanoclusters measuring under 2 nanometers (nm).”
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The claim is explicitly corroborated by a web search result from 'Asia Research News' stating that the joint research team used electrochemical methods to fragment bulk cobalt oxide into nanoclusters under 2 nm.
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web search NEUTRAL — In this work, mono-dispersed cobalt-oxide nanoclusters encapsulated in a typical structured carbon have been synthesized. The hybrids possess ordered mesoporous structure, high specific surface area (…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340494481_The_phase…
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web search NEUTRAL — To overcome these limitations, the joint research team introduced a “top-down materials design strategy.” Using electrochemical methods, the researchers successfully fragmented conventional bulk cobal…
https://www.asiaresearchnews.com/content/skku-reserach-team-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Electrochemical methods can remediate environmental NO 3 − pollution.hu J, Zhou J, Zhou M, et al. Self-supported nano-Ru anchored copper-cobalt oxide nanoplates for efficient electrocatalytic removal …
https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.26599/NR.2026.94908836
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“During this process, they finely adjusted the atomic bond length between the cobalt metal and oxygen atoms, contracting it by approximately 0.1 angstroms (Å, one ten-billionth of a meter).”
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The claim is explicitly corroborated by a web search result from 'Newswise' stating that the team adjusted the atomic bond length between cobalt and oxygen, contracting it by approximately 0.1 angstroms.
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web search NEUTRAL — The angstrom is often used in the natural sciences and technology to express sizes of atoms, molecules, microscopic biological structures, and lengths of chemical bonds, arrangement of atoms in crysta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angstrom
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web search NEUTRAL — During this process, they finely adjusted the atomic bond length between the cobalt metal and oxygen atoms, contracting it by approximately 0.1 angstroms (Å, one ten-billionth of a meter).
https://www.newswise.com/articles/skku-research-team-awakens…
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web search NEUTRAL — Intramolecular H-O bond lengths are approximately 0.9 - 1.0 Angstroms in liquid water at 25 C; intermolecular (hydrogen) bond lengths are much longer, quite possibly around 1.8 Angstroms as your sourc…
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/water-o-h-bond-length-…
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“High-performance structural analyses at the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL) verified for the first time globally that an engineered bond length of 2.03 Å is the optimal condition for inducing an entirely new reaction pathway.”
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While web search results confirm the existence and capabilities of the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL), none of the provided evidence mentions the specific finding regarding the 2.03 Å bond length for this catalyst.
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web search NEUTRAL — Location Korea, Pohang. Specifications Energy: 11 GeV Current: 3kA Number of Beamlines: 3 (2 for HX and 1 for SX) Horizontal emittance: 0.5 mm mrad Vertical emittance: 0.5 mm mrad. Call for proposals …
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web search NEUTRAL — At the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory’s (PAL’s) fs-THz facility, 3-THz radiation has been achieved using an electron beam of 150 fs rms. To further enhance the radiation bandwidth, we present design re…
https://pure.korea.ac.kr/en/publications/design-study-for-a-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Pohang Neutron Facility (PNF) is a pulsed neutron facility based on the 100-MeV electron linear accelerator. It was constructed for nuclear data production in Korea, and it consists of an electron lin…
https://www.academia.edu/165039695/Pohang_Neutron_Facility_B…
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“The newly developed nanocatalyst demonstrated outstanding performance, operating at a lower energy level than expensive commercial Ir catalysts.”
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The evidence provided discusses iridium and cobalt oxide catalysts in general terms, but does not specifically confirm that this newly developed nanocatalyst operates at a lower energy level than commercial Ir catalysts.
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web search NEUTRAL — Iridium also forms oxyanions with oxidation states +4 and +5. K 2IrO 3 and KIrO 3 can be prepared from the reaction of potassium oxide or potassium superoxide with iridium at high temperatures. Such s…
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web search NEUTRAL — Herein, we report on a cobalt oxide incorporated with iridium single atoms (Ir-Co3O4), prepared by a mechanochemical approach. Operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy reveals that Ir atoms are partiall…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379944755_Antimony_…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mechanism of Oxygen Evolution Catalyzed by Cobalt Oxyhydroxide: Cobalt Superoxide Species as a Key Intermediate and Dioxygen Release as a Rate-Determining Step.Redirecting dynamic surface restructurin…
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“Furthermore, when applied to actual systems, it proved its robust durability by operating for over 100 hours under high-current conditions without degradation”
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The provided evidence for this claim is completely irrelevant, consisting of information about the Houston Rockets basketball team and the number 100. No scientific evidence regarding the catalyst's durability was found.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 100 or The Hundred may refer to:
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 100% may refer to: 1 (number), the equivalent to 100%
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
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“and also demonstrated excellent charging stability in next-generation zinc-air batteries.”
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The evidence confirms what zinc-air batteries are and mentions a different battery with 1,100 hours of stability, but does not confirm that this specific nanocatalyst demonstrated stability in zinc-air batteries.
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web search NEUTRAL — Zinc–air batteries possess some properties of fuel cells as well as batteries: the zinc is the fuel, the reaction rate can be controlled by varying the air flow, and oxidized zinc/electrolyte paste ca…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc–air_battery
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web search NEUTRAL — Hi everyone!!In this video let us understand Zinc Air Battery. Zinc-air batteries are type of metal-air batteries. Zinc air batteries produce electrochemical...
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web search NEUTRAL — New zinc–air battery offers power density of 310 mW, stable performance for 1,100 hours. Zinc–air batteries’ real-world deployment remains constrained by slow oxygen electrochemistry at the air electr…
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/zinc-air-battery-s…
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“Sunhyeong Kwon et al, The role of chemical bond contraction induced via nanoclusterization of cobalt oxide triggering robust lattice oxygen mechanism during the oxygen evolution reaction, Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2026.126857”
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